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Darkly thrilling, these 20 new ghost stories have all the chills and power of traditional ghost stories, but each tale is a unique retelling of an urban legend from the world over. Multiple award-winning editor Ellen Datlow and award-nominated author and editor Nick Mamatas recruited Jeffrey Ford, Ramsey Campbell, Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlin Kiernan, Catherynne M. Valente, Kit Reed, Ekaterina Sedia, and 13 other fine writers to create stories unlike any they've written before.

This issue of Weird Tales presents a variety of stories, essays, and poems about cryptids and urban legends. Not to dispel, but to reveal.

Hell’s apex predator is known by many names. Among them, Wolven, The Lineage, and Werewolf. But in ages past, they were known as Daemonium Lupum. Welcome to our second collection based on Brian P. Easton’s Autobiography of a Werewolf Hunter series, an anthology featuring Legends of the Werewolf Hunter.

Horror stalks the sideshow tents of the 40’s and runs a 70’s era dive bar steeped in murder… It preys from the frozen peaks of a small, 80’s Alaskan town and spills across the streets of modern-day New York City. From the Great Plains of Native America to war-torn North Korea and the cradle of civilization itself in ancient Mesopotamia, the Beast is out for blood but the werewolf hunter pursues and will not stop until the last drop of blood has fallen.

Revisit the famous and fantastic realms conjured up by the world's most celebrated authors of fantasy in Legends -- the greatest collection of original fantasy short novels ever published, where the best of the best tell all-new original tales set in the lands they created. Each audiobook...

Return to the amazing worlds created by some of fantasy's most famous authors, as they tell all-new, original tales set in their bestselling series with Legends--the greatest anthology of original fantasy short novels ever published! In this sensational volume, Robert Jordan presents New Spring...

Set in the Rocky Mountains, Legends of the Fall is the epic tale of three brothers and their lives of passion, madness, exploration, and danger at the beginning of World War I. In Revenge, love causes the course of a man's life to be savagely and irrevocably altered. And in The Man Who Gave Up His Name, a man named Nordstrom is unable to relinquish his consuming obsessions with women, dancing, and food.

The stories in this collection are drawn mainly from those tribes which lived in the northern and central areas of North America. These represent the linguistic groups gerneally referred to as Algonquian, Iroquois, and Sioux. A final chapter covers the tales of the northwest Pacific Coast.

In Matheson's vampire classic I Am Legend, a plague has decimated the world and transformed the unfortunate survivors into bloodthirsty creatures of the night. Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth. Every other man, woman, and child has become a vampire hungry for Neville's blood. By day he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn. How long can one man survive in a world of vampires?

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is the most famous supernatural wild chase in all of literature. One of the best known American short stories, this tale has been produced countless times for television and film. A halloween classic!

Tall, gangling schoolmaster Ichabod Crane, both educated and highly superstitious, comes to live and teach in the quiet, rural town known as Sleepy Hollow in the Catskill Mountains of New York. There, he falls in love with the daughter of wealthy Farmer Van Tassel. But he must compete with the much admired, waggish ruffian Brom Bones, whom he encounters - with absolute terror and belief - in the guise of the much storied and feared specter... The Headless Horseman.

This audiobook contains the stories "The Thieving Magpie" and "Legend", by the great Russian writer, essayist, and memoirist Alexander Herzen (1812-1870). As Dostoyevsky wrote, "Whenever and wherever, Herzen was a writer first and foremost." (Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.)

Great Horror Stories is a vintage collection of some of the finest ghost tales, horror stories, and supernatural legends ever written, by the best writers the genre has to offer.

The stories in Paper Heart investigate contemporary romance from a wide range of angles, each centering around the timeless topics of love and heartbreak. Stories like "Sunday Morning at Jonseys' Diner" explore both familial and romantic love while stories like "Summer Fling" and "The Idea of the Mask" examine desire in the face of an inevitable end.

Zeus, Athena, Apollo, Aphrodite, and the other denizens of Mount Olympus feel almost as present and larger than life today as they did when they were worshipped as gods. Humanity has been telling and retelling stories about the characters from Greek and Roman myth for centuries—heck, the Romans liked the Hellenic originals so much, they remade them faster than Marvel remakes Spider-Man movies. And from Virgil's Aeneid to Xena: Warrior Princess to Percy Jackson to The Song of Achilles, the obsession has never waned.

你是否想知道，伏羲、女娲、神农、炎帝、黄帝、少昊、颛顼、帝喾、尧、舜、禹等这些上古传说中的帝王们都经历了哪些逸事，做出了哪些伟大的业绩？……你是否想知道，伏羲、女媧、神農、炎帝、黃帝、少昊、顓頊、帝嚳、堯、舜、禹等這些上古傳說中的帝王們都經歷了哪些逸事，做出了哪些偉大的業績？

En una gran cantidad de culturas alrededor del mundo se relatan historias sobre espectros sin rostro, demonios y seres macabros, los cuales se convierten en protagonista de las peores pesadillas o inspiradores de los más aterradores gritos. Audiolibros colección presente una colección de las leyendas mas escalofriantes, dramatizadas y con ambientación sonora que lo sumergirá en el relato. Incluye: La leyenda de la Mujina (Japón), La leyenda del charro negro (México), De cuando la muerte fue madrina (Europa e Hispanoamérica), La casa del sueño (Europa), La llorona (Puerto Rico), y mas.